Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Researchers from the Institute of the Novosibirsk-based Institute of Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics together with the Krasnoyarsk subsidiary of Russian oil giant, Rosneft, are creating new methods of 3D seismic survey to search for oil and gas fields in the Arctic.

Friday, December 25, 2015

Russia will supply 10 million tons of oil annually to India for the next decade, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, with the mutual deals between the two countries also extending to nuclear power generation.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Rosneft subsidiary RN-Exploration and ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Mozambique Offshore Ltd. will discuss the details of their participation in gas and oil exploration in three areas in Mozambique with the country's government.

Thursday, October 01, 2015

Russian oil and gas majors Rosneft, Novatek and Gazprom plan to invest several trillions of rubles in the economy of Russia’s Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District within the nearest several years, the region’s governor Dmitry Kobylkyn said on Thursday.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

SOCHI, September 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian oil giant Rosneft and US oil company ExxonMobil continue the drilling in the Kara Sea,
however, the Russian company was prepared to continue work
independently should plans have changed, Rosneft Vice President Larisa
Kalanda said at the International Investment Forum Sochi 2014."The work at the Universitetskaya field is going in accordance to
plans. We are satisfied with the decision from the American regulator
that has authorized [Exxon's participation]… In the case that the
regulator had not authorized Exxon to work at the field, Rosneft had its
own plan and was ready to continue work on its own," Kalanda said.

Friday, September 19, 2014

Previously, sources told Bloomberg that ExxonMobil and Rosneft had halted drilling wells on the Arctic shelf....

American ExxonMobil has confirmed receiving the U.S. government’s
permission to continue Arctic drilling works together its partner
Rosneft which the company was supposed to stop because of U.S. and
European sanctions imposed to punish Russia for escalating tensions in
Ukraine, the Bloomberg news agency reported with reference to the
company’s statement.

Monday, August 11, 2014

For the oil industry, business comes first. After years of preparation,
on Saturday ExxonMobil began drilling a $700 million well in the Kara
Sea in Russia’s Arctic. It is Russia’s most northerly well.

In doing so, the oil giant has ignored growing concerns over Russia’s role in the Ukrainian conflict, and the sanctions imposed on its business partner, Rosneft, which is run by a close associate of Putin, Igor Sechin, who is also personally blacklisted.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft will monitor marine fauna in the Northern Sea Route in 2014 in a bid to preserve marine life during oil exploration, the company’s press release says.

“The objective of the said studies is collection of data on marine fauna in Rosneft License Areas with a view to building a complete and detailed picture of the baseline environment state and developing a set of environmental controls to be applied during hydrocarbons exploration and production,” Rosneft said in a press release released Wednesday.

Monday, May 05, 2014

Rosneft, one of the world’s largest oil companies, has given the go
ahead on four Arctic projects with US oil giant ExxonMobil, despite the
US government’s attempt to derail business relations with sanctions.
The two companies will develop hydrocarbon reserves in the Arctic
waters of Russia, including the Laptev and Chukchi Seas, Rosneft
said in a statement Monday.
The projects will explore and develop four licensed oil-rich
reservoirs: the Anisinsk-Novosibirsk and Ust-Olenksk shelf sites
in the Laptev Sea zone, as well as the North-Wrangel-2 and
South-Chukchi shelf reserves, the statement said. No financial
details were provided.

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

MOSCOW/HAMBURG, November 6 (RIA Novosti) – As an international
tribunal got underway Wednesday in Hamburg over Greenpeace activists
imprisoned in Russia, the environmental organization launched boats
along the Moscow River in protest over Russia’s boycott of the hearing.The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea opened its hearing
at 13:00 Moscow time (9:00 GMT) into the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker and
its multinational crew, who were arrested after staging a protest near a
Russian oil platform in the Arctic in September. The case against
Russia was brought to the tribunal by the Netherlands, under whose flag
the Arctic Sunrise was sailing.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti) – A Greenpeace ship that Russia
prohibited from entering the Northern Sea Route has ignored the ban to
protest state oil company Rosneft’s operations in the Arctic, the
environmental group said Saturday.The Arctic Sunrise entered the Kara Sea on Friday and is heading
toward several exploration vessels operating for Rosneft and its
US-based partner ExxonMobil at the East-Prinovozemelsky oil field, the
group said in a statement.The Greenpeace ship
is determined to stage peaceful protests against the Russian state firm
as well as the government’s sanctioning of oil exploration in Arctic
national parks and wildlife reserves, where 1.2 million square
kilometers of previously protected territories have been opened for oil
drilling, the group said.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian administration
controlling use of an Arctic sea route banned a Greenpeace ice-breaker
in the region to protest Russian oil exploration in the area from
traversing the route, the environmental group claimed Wednesday.The Northern Sea Route Administration cited Greenpeace’s failure to
provide information about the Arctic Sunrise's ice belt, which protects
the vessel when it moves through pack-ice. The refusal letter, dated
August 18, is available on the administration’s website.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

MOSCOW, August 13 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian and Azerbaijani state
oil companies on Tuesday agreed to establish a joint venture on a parity
basis to prospect and produce oil and gas in Russia and Azerbaijan and
in other countries as Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a one-day
working visit to Baku.Energy CooperationDuring Putin’s visit – designed to discuss a wide range of bilateral
issues, including trade, energy, transportation and the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict – Rosneft reported that it had also agreed with the State Oil
Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) to jointly use some pipelines and
terminals to optimize supplies to consumers.

EL KAOS UT

The UN has imposed a 2013 deadline for the submission of scientific claims to the Arctic seabed. It is the precursor to a resource boom which would see Canada, the US, Russia, Norway and Greenland all attempt to exploit the region's resources.